Kansas Falls Quarry has $117K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2007–2023
Latest incident
Jul 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
198
citations
39
significant & substantial
$116,816
proposed penalties
$87,526
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $29,290 gap.
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘThis rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
198 citations across 1,362 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Kansas Falls Quarry has $117K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$117K
proposed penalties
$88K
current assessed
$88K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
184 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $83K in penalties contested before the Commission, $54K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-04.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
27citations taken to the federal commission · 14% of citations on record
Settled
15 · 56%
Stood as issued
12 · 44%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
35%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$83K proposed, $54K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2016-10-19.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2025-05-07
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
21
samples
8
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz7
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (21)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-05-07
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2025-05-07
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bobcat Operator
2025-05-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-05-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.42
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-05-07
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2023-09-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2023-09-12
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
10
0.01
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-02-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-02-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.41
Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-11-07
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2017-11-07
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2014-09-24
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
10
0.01
Utility Man
2014-09-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2014-09-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2014-09-24
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.32
2.34
0.14
Truck Driver
2011-09-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.14
10
0.01
Truck Driver
2011-09-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.51
3.13
0.16
Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-09-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.32
2.57
0.12
Bobcat Operator
2011-09-20
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.38
10
0.04
Front-end Loader Operator
2008-10-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.6
2.91
0.21
Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Kansas Falls Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Kansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.88 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
9.34
9.34
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
13
2025
13
2024
10
2023
10
2022
12
2021
11
2020
12
2019
11
2018
12
2017
13
2016
14
2015
15
2014
23
2013
25
2012
18
2011
18
2010
17
2009
19
2008
23
2007
23
2006
35
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Kansas Falls Quarry sits in Geary County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Geary County, Kansas · Population 35,895
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$57,344
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘCitations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Was working on scaffolding, was climbing a ladder from the ground when the ladder tipped and they fell into the ladder on the way down. They tried to grab the X bar on the scaffolding and missed, they landed on the ladder hurting their back and neck.
2016 · 1 incident
March 23, 2016KS · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EE was making hangers to hold electrical cords for the crusher. EE was punching holes thru the rubber and hit left thumb with the hammer, causing a contusion.
2015 · 1 incident
October 6, 2015KS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
Miner was attempting to start a pull start pressure washer, when he pulled on the rope and released the rope his left index finger got caught in the rope and pulled the skin back between the last and middle knuckle.
2014 · 2 incidents
April 30, 2014KS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miner was hanging a power cord and while twisting his body felt a twinge in his back. Finished hanging cord and reported to supervisor. Supervisor offered to take him to medical facility and miner refused. Supervisor then sent miner home to rest his back the rest of the day. Next morning miner called and said he should seek medical attention. He was then taken for treatment.
He was on the catwalk of the Masaba plant changing out a screening plant. While he was carrying the screening plant his arm twisted in an awkward position due to the plant slipping from him, and he felt a popping occur in his shoulder.
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